Category: History
Created by: KSGRAM
Number of Blossarys: 9
English (EN) 
In the Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon ...
Leonidas the first who died at 480 BC, was a warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta. He led the Spartan forces during the Second Persian War and is remembered for his heroic death at the ...
Pericles who was born at 495 and died at 429 BC, was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the ...
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC). He has been called "The Father of ...
Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (who was born at 460 and die at 370 BC), was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most ...
Sophocles (born 497/6 BC – died winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or ...
Socrates (born at 470/469 BC – died at 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the ...
